St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-23
She SAW HIM SHOOT.
A Woman Who Claims She
Witnessed the Killing Of
Mr.. Haddoek.
She Says That Arensdorf Was
the Man Who Did the
Deed.
A Vigorous Cross-Examina-
ton Fails to Materially
Shake Her Evidence.
A Breach of Promise Case at
Winnipeg--General North
western Notes.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe
SIOUX CITY, To-, Nov. 22.-ThiS has
been day of great interest in the
ArensdOrf trial. The crowd at the court
room has been so great that bailitfS were
stationed at the doors and were obliged
to refuse admittance to large numbers,
after the room was packed. The occa-
sion of this was the introduction of the
new and important testimony by Ben
jamin JOsephSOn and wife, who testified
to having witnessed the shooting from
the opposite side of the street, but who
through fear had not told of the fact.
The crowd in the court room was COM
posed largely of ladies drawn there by
a morbid curiosity to hear the teSti-
mOny of these two witnesses. On the
opening of court in the morning Mrs.
Louisa JoSephsOn was called. She and
her husband are Russian Jews, born in
Odessa, Russia, from whence they were
driven by prosecutions against their
race. This fact and the fear that perSe
cutiOnS might follow here have kept
their lips sealed.
THE woMAN'S TESTIMONY
was to the effect that she knew at the
time of the murder ArensdOrf, Peters,
Sherman, Bismarck and Leader. She
did not know the other defendants,
Leavitt, Munchcrath, Trieber or PlOth.
On the night of the murder witness and
her husband were delivering milk at
the Star restaurant, located diagOnally
across the street from the scene of the
killing. Her husband had gone up the
street on the errand and met her there.
She saw Bismarck and another man on
the opposite side of the street. She saw
them walk up and down and then saw
the crowd gather. Out of curiosity she
watched them, and went across the
street into the alley to get better view,
and ArenSdOrf, Bismarck, Peters and
Sherman passed by on the sidewalk
close to witness, but did not see her.
Then she went across the street again,
as her husband had come back to the
restaurant. Then she changed her
position about seventy-five feet further
west near the old blacksmith shop on
the north side of the street, her hus-
band remaining near the restaurant.
She saw Haddock come out from the
Columbia house, which adjoins the liv
cry stable. When he got nearly to the
middle of the street ArensdOrf and
Peters started out and met him. Had
dock raised his arm as if to strike and
ArensdOrf shot him and then ran across
the bridge, with Peters, toward the
brewery. On cross examination, con-
ducted chiefly by Attorney Erwin, of
st. Paul, in which every effort was
made to entangle the witness, she told
substantially the same story, and al
though
SHE SPOKE ENGLISH BROKENLY
and could not comprehend the meaning
of many words. The defense did not
succeed in getting single cOntradic-
ton to the main facts. B. JOsephsOn,
the husband, was next called. and al
though he had not heard his wife's testi-
mOny, told substantially the same story.
On crosS-eXaminatiOn he denied ever
having said that he knew all about the
murder and that there was money i'll it
for him. Neither did he say that if an
innocent man was convicted he would
offer his testimony. The story of each
was told in a straightforward manner
and had no appearance OF being other
wise than straight. The next witness in
trOduced was little Minnie kOSchnitSki,
daughter of Bismarck, who gave the
same evidence as in the former trial,
telling of the trip TO San Francisco
where they were sent by the defendants
after the murder, and of things she had
heard talked over in their house. The
state then rested its case and the defense
will Introduce its testimony tomorrow.
A man named Mcintyre is here from
DeS MoineS, who is expected to swear
that Bismarck told him in DeS MOines
that he (Bismarck) saw Leavitt shoot
HaddOck. Further than this there is
nothing made public as to new testi
mOny to be introduced by the defense.